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Salesforce.com/foundation Sponsors 13th Annual Tibet House Benefit Concert in New York City

Salesforce.com supports internationally renowned work for preservation of Tibetan culture in
conjunction with 4th Annual Freedom from Software event

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - February 28, 2003 - Salesforce.com®, the market leader in online
CRM, announced that tonight the salesforce.com/foundation will ring in the
Tibetan New Year at the 13th Annual Tibet House Benefit Concert at Carnegie Hall. Award winning
performers David Bowie, Ray Davies, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, and Ziggy Marley will take the stage
to celebrate the preservation of Tibetan culture. In tandem with the concert, Salesforce.com will
host its 4th Annual Freedom from Software event tonight, a celebration with customers, partners and
other associates to enjoy the success of the no-software model.

Marc Benioff, chairman, CEO and founder of salesforce.com and member of the Tibet House Board of
Directors, has supported the Tibet House for many years. The Tibet House's mission is to preserve
the wisdom and arts of Tibetan people in the emerging global culture. Robert Thurman, Tibet House
president and professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies at Columbia University, values Benioff's endeavors
to integrate business with the community and also sits on the salesforce.com/foundation Board of
Directors.

"What I have learned from these people [Tibetans] has forever changed my life, and I believe
their culture contains an inner science particularly relevant to the difficult time in which we
live," writes Thurman. "My desire is to share some of the profound hope for our future that they
have shared with me."

"We are committed to helping Tibetan people living in exile build skills that will enable them
to succeed across all borders," says Benioff. "Fully integrating the success of salesforce.com with
our efforts to support communities around the world is at the heart of our corporate
philosophy."

Salesforce.com/foundation partners with the Tibet House, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the
Department of Education, and the Tibet Fund to support the preservation of Tibetan culture and
empower the Tibetan people with technology. Since 2000, in addition to its work with the Tibet
House, the Foundation has given over $135,000 to the Tibet Fund, an organization aiming to preserve
the culture and the identity of the Tibetan people. These funds have been used for two primary
projects including provisions for computer labs in eight schools for Tibetan children and
technology for each of the 32 Tibetan settlements in India and Nepal to enable them to better
communicate with each other, the outside world and the government in Exile.

Through these projects, the Foundation helps support and strengthen the Tibetan refugee
communities in India and Nepal by providing technology for education and communication. Thousands
of Tibetan youth and other community members are now communicating with each other and across the
world daily via technology. These youth will also soon communicate with youth of other cultures
through collaborative projects with other salesforce.com/foundation supported nonprofits such as
the e-pal exchange project with students in Hawaii. In this project, Tibetan and Hawaiian youth
will be introduced to each other across the miles, learn about different ways of life, discuss
issues of local and global importance, and make new friends.

About Salesforce.com Foundation

The Salesforce.com Foundation mission is to remain the leaders in pioneering, evangelizing and
implementing the 1% Model, and using this model as a means to improve the lives of people around
the world. The Salesforce.com Foundation harnesses the power of product and people to improve the
lives of those in need. Using the unique 1/1/1/1 Model -- 1% Time, 1% Equity, 1% Product, "one"
with the earth-the Foundation reaches out to the community and increases the effectiveness of
nonprofit organizations so they can better achieve their goals. We call this the Power of Us. We
concentrate on the use of technology, specifically as it relates to organizations with youth
development programs. We have supported technology centers around the world that help kids in
technology-bereft urban and rural areas create a better future for themselves. Since July of 2000,
salesforce.com employees have given over 40,000 hours of their time and expertise, feeding the
homeless, tutoring kids, improving nonprofit spaces, and offering hundreds of helping hands when
the world is faced with devastating natural disasters.

About Salesforce.com Foundation

The Salesforce.com Foundation mission is to remain the leaders in pioneering, evangelizing and
implementing the 1% Model, and using this model as a means to improve the lives of people around
the world. The Salesforce.com Foundation harnesses the power of product and people to improve the
lives of those in need. Using the unique 1/1/1/1 Model -- 1% Time, 1% Equity, 1% Product, "one"
with the earth-the Foundation reaches out to the community and increases the effectiveness of
nonprofit organizations so they can better achieve their goals. We call this the Power of Us. We
concentrate on the use of technology, specifically as it relates to organizations with youth
development programs. We have supported technology centers around the world that help kids in
technology-bereft urban and rural areas create a better future for themselves. Since July of 2000,
salesforce.com employees have given over 40,000 hours of their time and expertise, feeding the
homeless, tutoring kids, improving nonprofit spaces, and offering hundreds of helping hands when
the world is faced with devastating natural disasters.